Satya I'm willing to bet that just about anyone could be taught to stitch up wounds and very easily set bones. Every time I see a doctor bash I see this about how they put people back together and so we should put a disclaimer or something about how not all doctors are bad. I mean, what's going to happen? They're going to stop stitching up people because we talk bad about them? Ya right, they'll last until their yacht is out of fuel and then show back up to the hospital for their huge paychecks. AV set his own bones after a motorcycle accident just over a year ago and he moves better (it was his arm and leg) than most people his age after the "doctors" that do that type of stuff said he'd never walk again without their surgery.
You really don't like doctors, do you, Kyle? How about naturopathic doctors (NMD), who have the same training of the complex human body of regular MDs, but take the least invasive approach when there is a need for treatment of something? I rather like an NMD when necessary. Sure you might be able to set your own bones or stitch up a slice, but how about removing shards of glass from your eye or stopping the bleeding from a puncture to your thigh? Personally, I have been trained in first aid, but I don't know even the tip of the iceberg, nor do I have the time or desire to focus on human anatomy and physiology. Some people don't have what it takes to think clearly in an emergency situation - especially if it is themselves bleeding. I am more than happy to pay an NMD or even a straight MD or DO for services I might require, even if that means being treated at one of the scary emergency rooms if my life is on the line (not that I fear death ... or at least I won't once my kids are gone). I once had profuse menstrual bleeding and was given the herb sheperd's purse to stop it by an NMD. I would never have known about this herb, and I was happy to pay her well for her extensive knowledge. What about optometrists for people who have less than perfect vision? Are they evil to prescribe glasses? What about rabid animal or snake bites? Burns? I think the right to choose is yours, and you can deny treatment by the medical community if you so desire (ie. you are conscious), but for those that want it - especially for traumatic injuries - it should remain available. If people took better care of themselves, it would not be such a lucrative, popular profession.
In other words even though the setting and stitching is usually actually a good thing it's all part of the same gravy train and those people will send you to other "experts" to get your prescriptions for whatever they want to sell you when the procedure is over. If a doctor wants some respect from the health community they can grow a pair and step outside of the corrupt and basically evil health care system and do holistic work or something like that; but you'll see that none of them will because they want to keep living off of the system.
It is completely up to you to fill a prescription for drugs. The doctor can write it, but it won't cost a thing until it is filled. Again, I agree that the whole system is based on treatment of (often times) chronic, preventable deseases of modern living, but there ARE holistic practitioners IN the system now. There are also biological dentists charging outrageous prices for amalgam removal (and sometimes that can be more toxic than leaving them alone). It's just not such a black and white picture, imho. Medicine has a long history, even in hunter-gatherer societies.
